Body (Poland)  

With what must rank as the blackest opening of any film at the festival, Body announces its beyond-deadpan look at life in the face of death.

Grizzled Janusz Gajos plays a police detective who seems hardened to the gruesome crime scenes he investigates. But he’s starting to unravel—his anorexic daughter is suicidal, his dead wife’s cemetery has just been flooded, and the dripping faucets in his home are starting to sound like a message from the beyond. He might just have to turn to the sweet, matronly spiritualist he so despises.

Don’t expect resolution in this bracing-as-Żubrówka little gem, which finds absurd humour in the sheer chaos of mortality.